William Moon (1818–94), teacher and philanthropist, was born in Horsmonden
He devised a new system, Moon type, based on a simplified Latin alphabet, which he designed to be easier to learn.
•
He became a teacher, and taught boys how to read using the existing embossed reading codes.
William Shakespeare | Moon | William Laud | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | Sailor Moon | William Wilberforce | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray | Fort William | William Hanna | moon | William Hague |